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  1. Nothing wrong with what you did.....except it may be a little inconvenient for your wife as she will first have to appear for her interview and then accompany your daughter as a legal guardian. It would have been better to tie your daughters H4 with her mothers H1 visa application. Wondering out aloud: As a 9 year old, why does your daughter need an in-person interview...she should have been eligible for drop-box, right? see this link: https://www.ustraveldocs.com/in/en/interview-waiver
  2. 1) This is gray area.....normally if passport is cancelled then there is an additional stamp that says "valid visa within not cancelled" or something like that. But in this case since your entire nationality is changing my guess is the visa will no longer be valid.........and anyway since you will become Canadian citizen, is it not better to renter US on TN visa assuming you are planning to work in US? 2) Yes that is OK
  3. you will have to wait until the H4 gets approved. However if you had filed both together then the USCIS would have first approved the H4 and then sent the I765 for processing.....unfortunately the timing did not work out for you
  4. Wondering if any of the Advanced members can help with this situation: If the physical Green Card gets lost while abroad, what are the procedures one must follow to return back to the US? And do US Embassies provide some sort of expedited processing for such situations? Thanks!
  5. there is no risk for travel as long as you come back within the visa validity date. You MUST remember to give your new extended I797 to the POE officer and you can even politely ask if he made your I94 valid upto the end of the I797 date. Sometimes the date is also annotated in your passport next to the entry stamp,,...,,,you can check it before leaving the counter and point out any discrepancy as it can easily be corrected by POE officer at that stage. Trying to correct it later will be expensive and time consuming.
  6. a) Mandatory: marriage certificate. Optional: marriage license if the state you reside in required you to apply for one, any photographs of marriage ceremony etc b) you can mention it to visa officer that her work started after ds160 submission. Or you can submit a new DS160 but make sure that your visa appointment does not get cancelled while trying to replace the ds160. I have also heard that you can fill a new DS160 and submit it then take its barcode along with you to interview and tell the visa officer about it...they can access the info from the bar code.
  7. My advice is to just continue with regular appt...............with drop box appt, there is a chance that you can be called for interview anyway.
  8. No there will be no issue.....your new H4 visa will be made valid to the same date as your husband based on his new H1B validity date
  9. An employer cannot make you pay for H1B application documents fees (ie LCA, I-129, H1B anti-fraud fees etc) but they can make you pay for attorney fees, their hiring costs etc The text of the agreement that you mentioned above seems to favor your employer legally since they have not mentioned anything about you paying for the H1B application fees. My advice to you is to dump this employer as the $20K costs are pretty excessive. The job market is pretty hot right now...find another employer or tell this one flatly that the terms are not acceptable to you and see if they are willing to negotiate.
  10. Technically you only need your passport and proof of approval of your I129 Form (which is provided via the I797 notice) for Visa interview. All other documents (pay slips, client letter, etc are all simply supporting documents). If you have an advance notice from USCIS that says that your I129 was approved then it should technically be sufficient for you interview since the Embassy verifies the approval via PIMS (Petition Information Management System) as long as you provide the USCIS Case Number in your DS160 form.
  11. rksingh

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    H1B is never "transferred"........a new employer simply files a new H1B application. If both get approved, then you have to decide which employer you want to start with and use that approval notice to apply for H1B Visa Stamp. If by chance you already have an unexpired H1B Visa stamp then you can travel to US and present the correct employer's H1B approval notice to work with them. There is no additional risk of another employer filing for a new H1B application.
  12. Usually family members authorized by the Primary Insurance Policy Holder to drive the insured vehicle are covered. However driving on a foreign drivers license is a gray area....technically they must have also have an accompanying International Driver's Permit along with their Indian Driver License. It is best to simply clarify with your Insurance Company to avoid any costly surprises.
  13. Q1 & 2. The H4 is processed first and when it is approved, then work on the EAD application starts. The timeline is impossible to predict with USCIS but try seeing approximate times on ********.com Q3. H4's are not allowed to work with pending EAD application...they must have physical card in hand to work Q4. Hard to answer this question since H1 lottery etc is impossible to predict
  14. You can do either method.......She can go to Mexico border and come back BUT only if she has valid H4 Visa stamp in her passport to re-enter into US. If she does not have valid visa, then only option is to file for H4 extension
  15. There have been several anecdotal successes at the Field Offices for this kind of situation....if you explain politely, there is a good chance that they will take your spouse's biometrics also. Good Luck!